It’s 1929 and Jean is twenty. He lives in Paris, in rue Clairault, and works for a stock exhange company in the rue de la Grange Batelière.
On the 11th of December he meets Rose, at the Saint Lazare metro station. She is eighteen, lives in the 15th arrondissement and attends the National Hairdressing School. Three months later, on the 10th of March 1930, Rose sets off for New Caledonia on the ocean liner, the ‘Ville de Verdun’.
Two years after she leaves, Jean re-constructs their story. He re-visits the places where they’ve been, taking photographs that he annotates and comments on, leaving out no detail. He puts a red cross in the places where Rose has been, and where she no longer is. He puts all the photos together in an album for Rose.
The album was discovered at the flea market. We don’t know therefore if it stayed in Jean’s hands or if it was sent to Rose. We don’t know where it came from, indeed we know nothing about what happened after the Parisian idyll.
The exhibition presents on the one hand the original album, as it was conceived by Jean, and on the other, an audio visual creation by the artist Bruno Rosier, who from a second album spoken in Rose’s voice, dismantles the original photographs, revealing the inherent ambiguity of photography, going back and forth between reality and fiction.
EXHIBITION
In part of le Mois de la Photo 2014
The Missing One
From November 8th to November 22nd 2014
La Guillotine
24 rue Robespierre
93100 Montreuil
France
Métro : Ropespierre (Ligne 9)
12h-19h du lundi au samedi
http://www.lumieredesroses.com
